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Chapter 169: Restoring Factory Settings and Matchmaking
Fixed on the operating table, David Martinez looked at Ron, who was chatting happily with his mother with half of his body exposed, with a confused look on his face, and he only felt a strong sense of malice.

He was sure, he was sure, Ron must have done it on purpose - although Ron had always impressed David as calm, composed, and silent. But now, looking at the malicious smile on Ron's face, and the indifference on the faces of the others around him, David suddenly realized that he had been deceived, and was deceived badly.

"No! I'm going to say it now! Let's put aside the girlfriend and other things for now, and explain to me what the hell these photos on the ground are!"

And Helheim was his own territory, so Ron didn't have to worry about becoming the target of a wall-butt.

After chatting seriously with Gloria for a while, Gloria, who was originally afraid of Ron, felt much more relaxed and couldn't help but exclaimed:
"It seems that I have wronged you, Mr. Ron. But by the way, if possible, can you help David find a job within the system?"

Gloria put her hands together a little embarrassedly and asked, "I'm from the World Tree Company. Can you help me find a suitable partner? If she's from the same department, that would be the best. If that's not possible... the daughter of a company employee would be fine too!"

"Ah, this is not easy to handle." Hearing this, Ron touched his chin seriously and said, "The main thing is that David is just an intern now, and it's still a long way to go before he becomes a formal employee. Besides, he and I are not in the same department, so even if I want to take care of him, it's not easy for me to intervene..."

"Oh, is that so? No wonder..." Hearing this, Gloria was a little disappointed, but she didn't take it too seriously. After all, just knowing these things now was enough to make Gloria happy for a long time.

"Haha, my son has joined a big company and is loved by two beautiful girls. What is there to be sad about?"

"But speaking of which..." Gloria touched her chin and said a little embarrassedly: "Of course there is nothing wrong with what Lucy said, but this little girl named Rebecca... isn't she a little too young? She doesn't even look like an adult yet."

"Oh, isn't David only sixteen? Relationships are something that are developed slowly. Rebecca is a very nice girl, and she is a good girl to be David's mother."

"Ah?" David's biological mother was slightly stunned and looked puzzled after hearing Ron's comment.

But Ron didn't care: "And she is now working in Mann's mercenary team. Yes, it's the cyberpunk mercenary team that paid you the deposit for Sian Westin!"

Ron said with a smile:

"I guess Mann will come to you later to ask you for Swanwestin, so you can take this opportunity to see what Rebecca looks like. Well, Lucy is also in this team as a technical support."

"Oh! I see! Okay, I'll go ask later!" Gloria nodded seriously, then seemed to remember something and asked, "That Sian Westin..."

"Why not find an opportunity to get David in? After all, they took Sian Westin simply to strengthen the team's combat power and take on more missions. David can use Sian Westin continuously, so joining him can not only pay off his debts, but also earn extra money."

"Besides." Ron smiled and patted Gloria's shoulder: "You know Mann's character. Among all the mercenary teams in Night City, he should be considered one of the most trustworthy ones, right?"

"That's right." Gloria nodded. "Mann's team is indeed ranked among the top in terms of credibility... Then I'll ask later to see if it's okay! David, I'll leave it to you!"

"Okay! Just watch me!"

Satisfied, he returned his head to Helheim and felt the novel fun. Ron felt that his tense nerves due to his ascension to the gods had eased a lot.

Ron left with satisfaction. Her son embarked on a bright road and started a new stage in his life. He joined a large company. Even his two daughters-in-law had found wives and were trustworthy members of the Mann team. Gloria no longer worried about David's further studies and tuition fees.

Staring at Ron, David secretly hated himself for not replacing his biological chicken with a smart telescopic dynamic electric shock cannon as soon as he made money. In this way, when Ron was chatting with his mother, he could use the ultimate bladder gun to snipe him from a distance of more than ten meters!

"What the hell are you thinking!"

Seeing David's face full of hatred and regret, Ron stuffed the yellow waste he subconsciously produced into his pocket without changing his expression:
"You are not yet an adult, don't look at things you shouldn't be driving!"

"You tied me up here and threw the book in my face, and you still blame me for not reading something I shouldn't?!" David gritted his teeth: "You! You! You..."

"Hey, this is all for your own good."

Hearing this, Ron shook his head and sighed, then took out from his pocket a special training manual for his younger brother that made Ronaldinho's cheeks flushed and his penis as hard as steel.

"You are sixteen years old, you should know that human memory is actually limited. It is difficult for some friends to be remembered in their minds after not seeing each other for a long time. But what Big Head can't remember, Little Head usually remembers very clearly."

Ron said helplessly, "I have no choice but to use the small head to control the big head to print out the scenes that impressed me the most first, and then use the big head to slowly adjust the details and copy them, and then help put on clothes during the copying process."

"NTMD..." David showed an exasperated smile, baring his big teeth, and wanted to say some cyber swear words, but just as he opened his mouth, Helheim's omnipresent secret energy formed a pile of waste paper to block David's mouth.

David vomited immediately.

This made Ron a little unhappy.

"I know those TV shows are all lies. How can you make someone shut up by stuffing a rag in their mouth? If you stuffed a light bulb in their mouth, I might believe it."

Ron stared at David and said, "Since you've already vomited it out, I can only stuff a 24-centimeter-long smart telescopic dynamic electric shock cannon into it, the kind that can reach the stomach in one step."

"..."

After a moment's silence and a deep breath, David lowered his head and picked up the pile of waste paper he had just spit out.

I closed my eyes and two tears rolled down my cheeks.

I really want to escape~ but can't escape~
Seeing that David had given up resisting, Ron nodded with satisfaction, then put the notebook away and prepared to come back and appreciate it slowly.

There was no need for a scalpel. Ron came in front of David and flicked his fingers lightly. Then David's body was wrapped in secret energy and fell into the air.

Facing David's sight, Ron snapped his fingers again. Then, in David's sight, his body was cut in half, and then his skin seemed to be cut by an invisible blade. In just a moment, it was split into two sides and hung flat in the air.

Then muscles, organs, bones, and even nerves and brains. A dazzling array of things hung in the air, and David could even feel the breeze from Helheim blowing through his organs. It was not painful, and even his eyeballs could still look left and right.

But not long after, David lost his vision.

A large amount of prosthetic tissue in his body was directly removed, and then with the injection of secret energy, his body restored its original organs.

"You'll have to replace all of these with prosthetics in the end anyway, so why not just replace them now and restore your own physical potential."

Ron spoke calmly while observing the neural connection between David's body and the prostheses.

"I have to say, your brain is really... Although you are only sixteen years old, if you were a biological person from another world, this would be a brain of at least thirty-five years old. Well, it's just the degree of aging, not including thoughts and wisdom."

“I feel like you’re scolding me…”

David said somewhat unhappily.

His mouth and throat still exist, and although he looks like a grotesque worm-like flesh-and-blood stickman made entirely of nerves, he still maintains all of his original physiological abilities.

"Don't doubt it, I'm scolding you. What? Want to resist?" Ron said nonchalantly, "You can choose between having only the head of your penis or turning into a woman directly."

"I was wrong, Mr. Ron, I'm sorry."

"You know the truth."

David wanted to cry, but Ron wouldn't let him and planned to connect David's vas deferens to his tear ducts.

Without further ado, Ron quickly began to dissect David.

The most common drug in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 is immunosuppressant. Ron didn’t know much about it before, but now, after seeing David’s brain, he more or less knows that immunosuppressants act on the nerves and brain.

The role of immunosuppressants is actually to block the body's defensive instincts. Although this does allow people in Cyberpunk 2077 to live more stably, in a way, this has locked people's upper limits to a certain extent.

“Don’t use immunosuppressants anymore.”

"Uh... will there be any danger? Like turning into a cyber maniac or something?" David was a little worried. He was not a complete academic loser, he just didn't like studying.

"You'll go crazy if you keep using it," Ron said. "Life itself is the most sophisticated mystical creation... and the most sophisticated machine. Prosthetics, mechanization, systematic learning and utilization are indeed a reliable route to advancement. But if the prosthetics are completed with immunosuppressants, it's just forcing things to happen."

Ron explained: "In the tens of thousands of years of human evolution, the immune system has evolved extremely exclusive characteristics. Not only machinery, but also an organ that is not the body will be attacked immediately when it is implanted into the body. This attack does not distinguish between friend and foe. Even if the body dies immediately after killing the organ, the immune system will not choose to stop."

"Based on this, it is indeed a good choice to suppress the immune system in the short term to reduce the risk of using prostheses. But if you use it all the time, it will only lead to the degeneration of the immune system."

"But if I don't use immunosuppressants, I will feel very tired." David said, "I feel very tired and feel that everything I do takes a lot of energy."

"You want to complete evolution without suffering? What are you thinking?"

Ron said disdainfully: "The artificial circuits of the prosthesis will be connected to the nerves. Just adding an extra mechanical arm will increase the burden on the nerves and brain. The high degree of prosthesis itself also means a high load on the nerves and brain. When eating, you must always be careful not to let your arms stick out the mantis blades, and when going to the toilet, you must be careful not to drain the fuel and oil from the drainage system. This is a huge burden on the brain and nervous system."

"A certain degree of suppression can play a positive role, but complete suppression will only lead to evolutionary stagnation or even regression, which runs counter to true mechanical ascension."

"The prosthetic technology in Armstrong's world is much more advanced than yours, but it still needs to retain the human brain and eyes, which shows that the precision of the brain is difficult to replicate. Suppressing the physiological system to obtain a larger prosthetic scale is a good way to take advantage of it, but it is only a trick after all, and it is not the right path."

"As the cyborg becomes more and more advanced, in addition to suppressing the immune system, it is also necessary to strengthen the resistance to the spirit, otherwise it will lose its humanity... I would rather watch more porn than choose this method to strengthen my self-anchor."

"After all, prosthetics are external objects. No matter how customized they are, the nerve signals transmitted by the machine will be different from those transmitted by the body. And these tiny differences will accumulate continuously in daily life. Even if it is just a prosthetic ankle, it can slowly turn a person into a lunatic who has lost his self."

"Based on this, Armstrong and his team directly replaced the entire body system, either leaving only the brain for control. Or they completely connected the nerves to form a brand new organ that was perfectly integrated with the body, indistinguishable from each other. Although the processes are different, they are all quite practical. There is no need to worry about problems with the self-thinking, and the resistance to hackers is quite high."

"Because the difficulty of invading a single artificial body is different from that of invading a complete whole..."

Listening to Ron's analysis and insights, David felt like he was back in the classroom. His head was buzzing with all kinds of noises, and for a moment he couldn't understand what Ron wanted to say. He just felt more and more sleepy, and finally fell asleep.

Ron did not make too many modifications, after all, David's good days were still with Armstrong. Now all Ron had to do was to restore David to factory settings so that he could accept the Metal Gear's cybernetic transformation in the best condition. Well, install the Sian Westin first, just in time to train David's ability to withstand it.

On the other side, in Santo Domingo's apartment, Gloria couldn't wait to contact Mann's team.

"Hello, is this Mann?"

"It's me, you are...Gloria?"

"Yes, it's me! Do you remember Sian Westin?"

"……Remember."

"Come to my place—and remember to bring Rebecca and Lucy!"

(End of this chapter)